Definition of Transposition. Meaning of Transposition. Synonyms of Transposition

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Definition of Transposition

Transposition
Transposition Trans`po*si"tion, n. [F. transposition, from L. transponere, transpositum, to set over, remove, transfer; trans across, over + ponere to place. See Position.] The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed. Specifically: (a) (Alg.) The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other without destroying the equation. (b) (Gram.) A change of the natural order of words in a sentence; as, the Latin and Greek languages admit transposition, without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English. (c) (Mus.) A change of a composition into another key.

Meaning of Transposition from wikipedia

- Look up transposition in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Transposition may refer to: Transposition (mathematics), a permutation which exchanges two elements...
- Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 148 : 17–37. The transpose (or "transposition") is defined on page 31. T.A. Whitelaw (1 April 1991). Introduction...
- found in Trichomonas ****lis. Mu phage transposition is the best-known example of replicative transposition. In Yeast genomes (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)...
- a transposition cipher (also known as a permutation cipher) is a method of encryption which scrambles the positions of characters (transposition) without...
- other than middle C; that sounding pitch identifies the interval of transposition when describing the instrument. Playing a written C on clarinet or soprano...
- term covers both chromatic and diatonic transpositions as follows. Chromatic transposition is scalar transposition within the chromatic scale, implying that...
- Simple, or conservative transposition, is a non-replicative mode of transposition. That is, in conservative transposition the transposon is completely...
- Replicative transposition is a mechanism of transposition in molecular biology, proposed by James A. Shapiro in 1979, in which the transposable element is...
- rotation sense changed. Transposition tower. On the right side, the phases are rotated upward, on the left side downward. Transposition in the span field of...
- This is a list of transposing instruments and their transposition. Transposing instruments are instruments for which the convention is to write music notation...